Word: paines
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...slaves. The hope may have been that the performance would help Williamsburg fight off criticism that it tended to sugarcoat the rough realities of colonial history. But the re-enactment was met by a public protest organized by the Virginia coordinator of the N.A.A.C.P., who complained that it turned pain into entertainment...
...Peruvian peasants from organic wool, the darling snatches it away, and her parents have to browbeat her into civility. The old man worries about this. I can visualize her as a selfish, overbearing snot--visions of the Bush daughter in the limo, her tongue stuck out--a royal pain in the ass. I brood about this...
...rough and tumble of Australia's impending federal election campaign may seem like a picnic to Labor Party leader Mark Latham compared to the acute pancreatitis that flattened him in Sydney last week. Centered in the stomach and seeming to bore through to the spine, the pain of the ailment is "among the most severe . . . it can be overwhelming," says Ross Smith, associate professor of surgery at Sydney's Royal North Shore Hospital. Lying down worsens the agony; only doubling over offers any relief until painkillers take effect...
...that lies behind the stomach and produces digestive juices and enzymes. These don't normally become active until they're released into the small intestine. But if the pancreas becomes blocked they can activate within the gland, triggering what Smith calls a type of "auto-digestion" that causes severe pain and sometimes fever, nausea and raised blood pressure. A key part of early treatment is to ensure the patient eats and drinks nothing - often for two or three days - to allow the pancreas to rest. Nutrition in this period is delivered intravenously...
...been a pivotal planning session, much the way a 2000 meeting in Kuala Lumpur was for the 9/11 attacks. "This was a meeting of a bunch of cold-blooded killers who are very skilled at what they do and have an intense desire to inflict an awful lot of pain and suffering on America," says an official familiar with the summit. A senior counterterrorism official said analysts are scrutinizing the recent pattern of enemy activity against timelines of previous attacks. This, he said, has contributed to the worry that at least some members of a strike team are already...